Fastening for shoes



(No Moae1.)

A. L. D-ORR. .FASTENING FOR SHUES.

No. 470,183. Patented Mar. 8, 1892.

-ranged in Nsirnn STATES ATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR DORR, OF WILMINGTON, DELAVARE.

FASTENING FOR SHOES.

SECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 470,183, dated March8,1892.

Application filed April 14, 1891. Serial No. 388.828.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR L. DORR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Wilmin gton, in the county of New Oastle and State ofDelaware, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inFastenings for Shoes, rbc., of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, ofwhich-` Figure l is a front view of the margins of a shoeupper or otherarticle of apparel provided with my invention, the flap margin beingturned back upon itself for clearer illustration and the string or lacerepresented by the dotted lines. In this ligure apiece of the flapmargin is indicated as torn away, so as to expose a portion of thesinnous wire. Fig. 2 1s a similar view showing the margins overlappedand fastened together. Fig. 3 is a transverse section enlarged, as onthe line Fig. 2.

The nature of this invention is a device for fastening the flaps oroverlapping margins of shoes or other articles of apparel; and itconsists in the employment of a series of hooks or catches on one marginand a series of holes or eyelets on the other or Hap margin 'arsuchrespect to said hooks or gether the hooks or catches are in line, orpractically so, with alternate'spaces between' the holes or eyelets, incombination with a sinnous wire so disposed along said flap margin thatthe inprojecting portions of the wire intersect those spaces between theholes or eyelets with which the hooks or catches are not in line,together with -a suitable lace, adapted, as hereinafter described, to beengaged alternately with said hooks or catches and holes or eylets andin its course to compress the several inprojecting portions of the Wire,thereby maintaining the flap margin over and upon the hooks or catchesto cover and conceal the latter. The device is particularly applicableto shoes, as when itis applied thereto and in actual service it not onlypresents a neat appearance, but it protects the overlying portion of thewearers garments from the detrimental action of the hooks.

Referringto the annexed drawings, A marks (No model.)

the series of hooks attached in the usual manner to a shoe-upper B, andC is the series of eyelets on the shoe-flap h, which eyelets, as seen,are .placed some distance in from the edge of the flap and are staggeredwith relation to the hooks A-that is, the hooks, when the flaps arebrought together, are in line, or practically so, with alternate spacesbetween the holes or eyes. In fastening the tlab b the cord or lace D(thelower end of which is fastened to the upper in any convenientmanner) is run into an eyelet and out through theneXt eyelet, and so onthrough the series, and is looped on the under side of the flap aroundthe respective hooks; or, in other words, the cord is engagedalternately with said hooks and the holes or eyelets in the mannerillustrated. The cord is then drawn as taut as desired and its free endsecured in any proper way. It will be observed that the margin of theHap h beyond the eyelets O covers the hooks, this margin beingpreferably scalloped, as shown. In order to aid in retaining this marginin place over the buttons, I insert along the edge of the margin aflexible strip or wire E of metal or other suitable material possessingflexibility with sufficient rigidity, to which I givean inward or.downward bend between the scallops, as seen. I make the said wiresinnous and so dispose it along the flap margin that the inprojectingportions of the wire intersect those spaces between the holes or eyeletswith which the hooks are not in line, so that the overdrawn lacing inits course compresses the several inprojecting portions of the wire,thereby holding the said margin in place over the hooks.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and wish to secure byLetters Patent- In a shoe or other article with overlapping margins, thecombination of the series of hooks on theundermargin,the series of holesor eyelets on the ap margin arranged in such respect to said hooks thatwhen the flaps are brought together the hooks are in line or practicallyso with alternate spaces between the holes or eyelets, and the sinnouswire so disposed along said jecting portions of the wire intersect thoseflap margin that the inpro? IOO spaces between the holes or eyelets withwhich the hooks are not in line, together with a suitable lace adaptedto loe engaged alternately with said hooks and holes or eyelets and inits Course to compress the several i11- projeoting portions of the Wire,substantially as described.

In testimony Wllereor` I have hereunto at'- xed my signature this 14thday of March, A. 13.1891.

ARTHUR L. DORE.

Witnesses:

JOHN Rv. NOLAN, J osHUA PUsEY.

